Re: DRI's Personal Basic

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From: Richard RUDEK
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:00

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ianst@refer.to.sig.au.invalid (Ian Staples) wrote:

>In article <8it63l$8ts$1@news.ycc.yale.edu>, 
>karger@fermi2.chem.yale.edu wrote:
>>I've been looking around for old manuals too. A post to clbm didn't produce
>>any responses. I've found a couple, but part of the problem is that there
>>are a lot of different BASICs. It would be nice to find a manual for, say,
>>GW-BASIC or Applesoft, which were at least standards of a sort because they
>>were popular.

[sorry for piggy backing Ian - Pacific Internet's news server died again]

Just in case you didn't know, Win98 (and earlier Windows versions) still
ship with QBASIC. In the case of Win98, it's on the CD in \tools\oldmsdos.
Just run QBASIC.EXE without any parameters, and it should immediately open
up the help system.


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